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Gabon’s opposition presidential candidate Jean Ping has claimed victory over incumbent President Ali Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich African nation for almost half a century.

“But even then, we would not have conditions like a year ago”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel chats with a girl during a welcoming ceremony at Nizip refugee camp near Gaziantep, Turkey, April 23, 2016.

After a almost three-week siege by regime troops, rebels early this month linked up with opposition-held neighbourhoods via a new road from the city’s south, in a major blow to forces loyal to Assad.

Diyarbakir is home to a large Kurdish population, in a region where Kurdish militants have waged an insurgency for more than 30 years.

Police are still looking for the other passengers, two men.

“Thirty-five to forty people on the bus all were transported with minor to moderate injuries”.

The two pilots, ages 45 and 35, were supposed to fly 141 passengers on a flight out Scotland.

May is allegedly planning to prevent Members of Parliament from voting on the decision to leave the European Union before Article 50, the legislation that will trigger the UK’s formal exit from the bloc, is triggered, reports The Guardian.

A federal judge ruled Friday that the University of North Carolina system can not enforce the part of the state’s House Bill 2 law that deals with which restrooms transgender people use, a controversial provision that prompted the Justice Department to sue the state.

Ascoli Piceno Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole, who officiated the ceremonies, urged people not to be afraid and to have courage to rebuild homes and churches together.

Joe Root steered England to a 2-0 lead in the five-match one-day global series against Pakistan at Lord’s.

A military council linked to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Saturday that Turkish air and artillery attacks on the village of Amarna had caused civilian casualties and called it “a risky escalation that threatens the fate of the region”.

Media reports say the pearl, if verified, could be worth up to an impressive $100 million.

In Syria, fifteen people have been killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held area in the city of Aleppo.